The Eine Kleine Summer Music festival wraps up Sunday with a minor program change.
The final concert, originally billed as a trio, will instead feature a cello-piano duo.
Pianist Sarah Hagen and cellist Ariel Barnes will play together at the First Unitarian Church of Victoria at 2:30 p.m. Hagen and Barnes will play a program including Schumann’s Fantasy Pieces, Shostakovich’s Sonata in D minor, Rachmaninov’s Vocalise and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in G minor.
Tickets are $25 or $20 for students and seniors. Reserve by calling 250-413-3134 or in person at the Raincoast Business Centre, 1027 Pandora Ave.
Aboriginal art show coming
The artist behind a series of brightly coloured billboards of aboriginal icons and symbols that have been displayed across the country is bringing her series indoors to Victoria.
Indian Candy, created by Lakota artist Dana Claxton, opens at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s LAB Gallery Friday.
Claxton has washed nine historical photos and documents in glossy, bright and fluorescent colours. Subjects include souvenirs from Buffalo Bill Cody’s 1880s Wild West Show, ancient petroglyphs, classical ballet dancer Maria Tallchief and the white buffalo.
The show runs through Sept. 7 and Claxton will give an artist’s talk Aug. 21.
Painters subject of new book
A pair of lovers is the latest subject in a book series dedicated to local artists who might otherwise be overlooked by history.
The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb, by Adrienne Brown, tells the story of a couple who painted in the context of the postwar jazz scene.
It is the seventh book in a series called The Unheralded Artists of B.C., published by Mother Tongue Publishing.
A book launch and author talk will be Saturday at 8 p.m. at at the Victoria College of Art.
A companion exhibition, Harry & Jessie Webb: Artists in the Jazz Age, runs Sept. 16 to Nov. 15 at the West Vancouver Museum. — Amy Smart
